"A personal website is vital, but it needs to change and evolve."

“Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Feb 15, 2013

“Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.”

Source : Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

“Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had.”

“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.114, ETT Imprint

“I really love the piano and I feel very fortunate that I am able to play and travel all over the world as my career.”

“The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.”

Source : "Only quality journalism can save us, says Sun editor Rebekah Wade" by Stephen Brook, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2009.

“Everybody is excited to play so I think who plays with whom is a minor thing at this point.”

“I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.”